skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...and that these are not merely artifacts of one's own cognition or of rhetorical gotchas.

A non-"pedantic" person might read this and accidentally form the belief that they are not often just rhetorical gotchas, or that they are not artifacts of one's own cognition (which they are....but they are not only that....and, it is fairly well known even by science how unreliable our Narrator of Reality is).

The relative perfection of the US and other "democracies" is what it is, and that perfection is plausibly substantially influenced by the degree to which citizens collectively buy into the stories of how good they are ("if it ain't broke...").

Do you disagree that most people's models of the quality of various governments rest upon a bed of stories? Or another way of asking the question: do you believe that there is an accurate methodology in existence to objectively determine with high accuracy the quality of each nation in this regard (and also that most people utilize such a methodology, as opposed to believing the stories that please them)?

> They do not "barely have meaning" and one can travel to various places on the earth and try simple experiments to prove it.

It's a fair point, but the claim was: "They barely have meaning in political discourse nowadays". There is a difference, and the importance of the difference is very tricky.

> Absolutely wild to be saying "go travel and try to exercise a freedom there" is seen as an appeal to cognition while "I would rather not engage in illusory thinking" is... what exactly?

Also wild: you sidestepping the other metric I mentioned, and leading out with supreme self-confidence. But then, truthfulness and accuracy is perhaps not the game being playing here, considering the topic.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
I use this daily, great resource.
Sure, you think that, but then the one time it does happen and you don't give them money and someone gets serious hurt or dies, you never forgive yourself ever again. And out of worry that that may happen, a lot of people will be safe rather then sorry. Since money is less important then lives.
That's -1.5 dB. Or about half the voltage at the antenna. RF engineers will do a lot for a solid dB.
Kudos. We’ve all solved bugs with the wrong code. It was an interesting post and I found the unexpected secondary followup just as interesting. (Why did it work for, eg, Chinese, do you know?)

See, I am not an Android developer either. I could have made the same mistake. To me it comes down to — why string types?
> For the American educational funding policy, see 90–10 rule.

is that really necessary? Who would mistake that?
It’s still quite wildly on websites. But it doesn’t even have support for GA4 yet. It’s probably dead just not yet on the dead list.
off with their heads
This article lost me when it stated that Arborio rice is fluffier than basmati.
Looking at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/117544989 seems like Google mostly just ignored this feature request without giving any reason. I wonder the same. Perhaps someone who works at Google with access to the internal Buganizer will know more.

But if you want me to speculate, my speculation is that the team behind Android networking is highly pro-IPv6. They don't really care about missing niche features in IPv4. Even for IPv6 they have a specific vision for how IPv6 should be used, resulting in deliberate non-support of features like stateful DHCPv6.
I wouldn’t date the current system prior to one-room schoolhouses becoming uncommon. That’s an enormous change.

If we’re going back farther than that, then I’m really having a hard time seeing where the stagnation comes in—I don’t agree with that even past that point (gifted education alone is only just now starting to develop into something halfway useful, and that’s a very recent change in just one small part of primary and secondary education) but if we’re going farther back, then… what?
Ask HN: Self Hosted Calendars?
I am aware of self hosting email, but what about self hosting calendars?

I would like to be able to send calendar invites between different users of domains and be able to sync different events.

For example, userA@gmail.com sends calendar invite to userB@selfhostedemail.com.

At some point userB accepts or denies the calendar invite. UserA is subsequently notified of UserB decision.

I have seen this work well within users of the same domain (particularly, o365 at work). To some degree, have seen it work between o365 and google workspace users.

Not sure if this is a standard or if these services have some proprietary software to get it to work.
A plausible scenario I can think of would be in an office space, a shared smart coffee machine that would be stolen to gain WIFI access.
The limitations section mentions the study omitted RAG and focused on base performance as a key bottle neck. But given the usefulness of RAG, and weakness of base LLMs for this kind of task, base recall performance is not necessarily relevant or a key bottle neck preventing accurate coding.

Adding even some slapdash RAG attempts would have provided a more realistic and still disappointing result, since assisted LLMs are still only around 75% accurate (see the RAG paper another author shares in their comment). I suppose the space of possible RAG solutions makes it hard to represent fairly, so is reasonably left to further research.

I appreciate testing base performance, with a STRONG proviso that a relevant conclusion requires more work, along the lines of RAG and other tools. I wish this was communicated more clearly in the intro and abstract, and wonder if the authors had some unstated reasons for not being more blatant about that.

The study does provide an interesting value. Its benchmark is open source and extensive. It should be easy to adapt and replicate in other systems. It could become a target benchmark for tool and retrieval enhanced medical coding LLMs.
CoreWeave does not exactly have an arms-length relationship with nvidia.
This seems great, I would use something like this day to day if it were a vscode plugin. Often times two side by side panes are not enough to get the intertwined context of a large program that spans both code / subprocess / api boundaries. Currently, I solve this problem by keeping a set of tab groups for different "workflows" that I need to edit frequently
Yeah with real-time deepfake audio this could be done by an attacker as an actual phone call in the voice of the person being impersonated.
Morning Standup at a state-sponsored hacking organization

Bob: Happy Monday everybody! Before we start, just want to give a shoutout to Fred and Jane for that Ether address poisoning attack last week! I know you two really worked hard on that one!

Polite applause echos through real and virtual space.

Bob: Igor, can you get us started this morning?

Igor: Bah, I finally managed to exfiltrate metadata from my target's home TI-99/4 with combined TI BASIC and TMS9900 machine language exploit using security hole in speech synthesizer peripheral...

Bob: Igor, can you get to the point?

Igor: OK OK, bottom line, my target is hosting their TOTP authenticator on Palm OS instead of Android or iOS! I mean actual Palm Pilot, not some retro hipster pink iPhone running an emulator! Maybe if I can write and induce target to install trojaned PRC file into their Palm Pilot...

Bob: Fortunately we're a state sponsored hacking organization with considerable resources. Jeff, do you think you can help Igor?

Jeff: Yo, whatcha need?
So you're saying his assumption is incorrect because you want something else? You should read some of this guys other stuff - a point he's made many times is that most disagreements in financial advice come from "people with different experiences in life, different time horizons, different risk tolerances talking over each other". There's a lesson in there for you.

You don't want to work at your grandpa's company, fine. This advice may not be for you then. That doesn't make his premise any more flawed than your own.

And FWIW a thousand year old company does not require that it stay within the same family - which is from your (flawed) assumption. In your own example of "creating a business, making a profit, and handing down wealth to your family", one of the ways to make that profit is to sell your business to someone else, who may sell it to another (on and on for... a thousand years).

So not only are you claiming he's wrong based on an opinion you have, your opinion isn't even contradictory to the point he's making.
Mapped: The Number of AI Startups by Country
Approximately nobody makes eg dim sum from scratch at home. Too many dishes, too many ingredients, very fiddly recipes, it's just not worth it when you can go out and get them from a restaurant that has specialized in dim sum for decades.
There's a vast difference between suboptimal decision making and ignoring a massive cost saving. The line that "went make X% as much as men" is widely spread, it's inconceivable that executives haven't heard this line. And the profi gains from a 10-20% reduction in labor costs would be staggering. No, prejudice doesn't cut it as a rationale.

Slavery existed because preindustrial societies were heavily labor intensive and the returns on more skilled labor was marginal. The industrial revolution changed this, which is why abolition movements largely coincided with industrialization.

Restrictions of women's liberties stem from thousands of years of family dynamics where child mortality rates meant that women had to spend most of their fertile years bearing and caring for children. The replacement rate in preindustrial societies was something like 5-6 births per woman due to such high infant mortality rates.

> The differences in hours doesn't account for the difference in pay

It actually does, men work 2 more normal hours and 1 more overtime hour on average. Assuming overtime is paid at 2x normal wages this is about a 10% disparity in paid hours. And again, there's more than just hours worked there's travel nursing, different metro areas, and more.

> Show me a single study that reinforces the data that backs up your position that satisfies the level of granularity you're grasping at.

You're asking me to prove a negative. I don't doubt you can find individual instances of discrimination against women (and against men), my point is that the large disparities between men's and women's average wages overwhelmingly stem from differences in men and women's behavior rather than discrimination.
I thought we were safer (and we probably are) in Spain since scammers disproportionately target Americans, but this was a good wake up call and just warned my family of the steps to follow if I ever contact them out of the blue asking for money.
We got "attacked" by this. The team was diligent enough to ask questions, but we are a financing company so money transfer requests are extremely common. We had processes in place and obviously made them stricter.

My concern is as AI voice/video generation becomes stronger the social engineering can cause internal processes to be circumvented especially if you have a basic understanding of the inner workings of the org.
annas-archive org :)
Alas! https://www.caniemail.com/search/?s=strongbad
There are many mathematical ways to detect “unreasonable” gerrymandering. The efficiency gap[1] is one way although SCOTUS rejected it. Harvard put out a tool to generate districts in a non-partisan way [2]. Other states instead use non-partisan boards to build the maps instead of letting the party in power do it.

There’s a world of difference between “no correct way” and partisan gerrymandering and for some reason people like to pretend that because there’s no correct way, partisan gerrymandering is the only other solution. As for the racism involved, you’d have to be intentionally ignoring all history to pretend that this is just because minority populations prefer Democrats, especially given that the players involved on the Republican side are pretty explicit in their private communications that manage to leak that it’s about race and protecting the white vote.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/03/upshot/how-th...

[2] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/an-algorithm-...
Apple Is Developing AI Chips for Data Centers, Seeking Edge in Arms Race
> Unicode has variant selectors which can deal with region variants (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/syMcWNO) to deal with the issue.

They're officially deprecated and cause issues with breaking search etc.. So they're still below feature parity with using a traditional encoding. Traditional encoding support is also easier to test since documents with traditional encodings are more widespread and exist for many world languages, not just Japanese.
This is really neat! I’ll have to take a closer look and see if some ideas could be reused in zephyr’s new elf loading facilities
It's easy to say this, but can you imagine the hodge-podge of proprietary garbage we'd have to deal with if you couldn't email a simple file attachment to someone?
Well, you can use it as a Palm device, but the phone capabilities will be forever broken :'(
Wow thanks for sharing. I had no idea.
California’s approach privileges people who have lived in California in the past over the affordability of housing for people working today. It’s got its own popularity issues.
Nigiri are also a pain in the ass to make. In Japanese homes sushi usually means DIY temaki, which outsources the making process to the eaters, accounts for preferences in ingredients, wasabi strength etc and also ensures the nori stays crispy until the last second.
Modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
...and the attacker needs to be in the same L2 network as the victim to trigger the attack.

(i guess... didn't read the article, just the post above)
I assume you haven't read nearly enough Douglas Adams.
A Palm Pilot probably wouldn't have wifi and it's a good chance it would be reasonably airgapped.

Other Palm OS devices for sure though :)
It's funny how used we get to our surroundings. That street isn't narrow at all, it fits two rows of parked cars alongside it. If only it was possible to reclaim that dead space...
Part of my family training has been "phone numbers can be easily stolen" so be wary of that (okay we know it's not "easy", but they CAN be stolen by a semi-decent cracker calling the ISP and this sentence has already 2 words that would take days to explain to them).
Most of the profits in AI chips for data centers will be in selling and renting said chips.

Is Apple going to start offering a cloud or selling chips directly? That would be very unexpected

Of all the big tech companies, Apple seems to have missed the boat more than others
This is a perfect example of the CVE mining.

There is nothing novel in the attack nor it's a security problem.
DHCP environment must be trusted.
We do have IP Source Guard and DHCP Snooping for decades to avoid scenarios from that link ( and many other).
I think you're talking about different numbers, that's not the antenna voltage or RF output power, just the system input power (think VCC on all the phase shifters, FPGAs, PAs, etc).

Unclear what the gain on the new antenna is.
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

Letting Go - David R Hawkins

Both books provide amazing reminders for the best ways to approach life and handle stress.
Can still do plain text with attachments... unless you expect that companies would move to emailing you HTML files of their message?
Wifi existed. Bluetooth data existed too (Bluetooth Dial up Networking).
Yep, this is one of those "This problem can't be solved - Says the only nation that has this problem" situations.
Wouldn’t this also mean that the bacteria is radiation resistant?
Kialo looks interesting but it looks like it ends up being a binary tree of pros and cons? (Ie debate outcome)

One shortcoming of debates is assuming that there are only two positions. I get that it’s a simplification to help us manage our thoughts but in many complex discussions the answer is usually a combination of both sides.
By phone it meant making phone calls and not surfing, so the phone capabilities and sms capabilities were fine.
can't Gmail support SVG without javascript?
Firefox (on linux). But it seems to also happen in Chrome.
I took a quick screen capture: https://imgur.com/a/jpPtj2f - you can see when I click back, the button shows the spinning icon.
Most people don't think about debt rationally. If going into debt can accelerate your plans by a significant timeframe, why not do it, assuming it's affordable? Especially if you can get money without having to give up equity. Their funds accelerate your business, you pay them back with the increased earnings. It's literally how capitalism is supposed to work.
It's still true though. If push comes to shove, having no debt will increase your odds of surviving volatility - it the debt ratio just expands or tightens what range of volatility you can survive (which he did write about). Even if you have $5 of debt and $5m in the bank, you would still be measurably better off to have had $0 of debt in financial "survival".
How did a NYT journalist manage to write this entire story without mentioning Bad Therapy, a book on this topic (the over-therapization of kids in general, including in schools) that came out recently? [1]

1: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Therapy-Kids-Arent-Growing/dp/059...
Bikeshed: A preprocessor that turns source text into actuals specs
Great article. Not much totally knew but a good summary.
Thanks for the link. Do you understand what they mean by "normative" pain? I cant make sense of it.

The first argument given for illusionism is merely stating physical processes are strongly anagaolous to mental pheneomena. Ok agreed, but this is equivalently supports a panpsychic view. It just states "if one adds anomalousness as a premise for illusion, and then further assumes that illusionism is a possibility, then we have strong evidence of illuionism". Huh?? Cant one make the exact same argument for panpschyism? If one adds a premise that physical properties are anomalousness with conscious experiences, and then one supposes that the possibility of panpsychism is evidence for panpsychism then we ought to believe in panpsychism. Besides, what about a synonymous relationship between two things denotes one is illusionary and a product of the other? All this does is show that a singular criteria of illusion is met.

The second argument is even more bizarre. It starts with the premise that consciousness/conscious phenomena can be explained fully by physical properties (but not right now, but science will obviously explain it surely, one day). Is this so obviously true that zero words are given to it's justification?

Then the rest of the article is an argument to how one cannot treat the "obviousness" of experience so casually...

It doesnt seem to me that illusionists actually deny conscious phenomena. More so, they call it an "illusion" and claim this makes the hard problem equivalent to the easy problem. i.e it becomes reducible to giving it a physical explanation. But if all is meant by "its an illusion" is "its really just a physical process", it doesnt grant any useful pathway. It seems very circular.

All this makes me really wonder if some of us truly are p zombies and thst the illusionists have managed to figure out a test for it.
Pillbugs usually eat decaying plant matter. But if they're hungry they'll go after plants, particularly new shoots at ground level.

Internet is full of people arguing about whether seedling damage is caused by some unseen creature or pillbugs.
Depends where you live! There are plenty of cities that have gone downhill. I could easily see some big sun belt cities getting too hot in 2044..
A house is not a zero-risk investment. Any number of reasons from Natural disaster on down could cause it to lose much of it's value or even become uninhabitable. Possibly in a way that insurance wouldn't cover.

Think of people who owned houses in declining industrial cities. The local economy went bad, their house value went down and they faced a barrier to moving since they couldn't sell, move, and get a comparable house in a city with better prospects.
Expand your group of people, because you clearly don’t know enough people.
Here is the precise misunderstanding; the statement you quote

>In the Court’s view, the facts and circumstances mentioned above are sufficient to conclude that at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible.. (my emphasis)

Has been widely reported as saying that the allegations of genocide are plausible.
they're going to make the chips, and build a cloud with them and then they're going to sell services with that cloud directly to the consumer.

they're going to own the entire stack, from fab to finger
I think that hodge podge (OneDrive, Google drive, Dropbox, etc) is what most people already use. "Simple file attachments" are an oxymoron these days--size/extension restrictions, spam scores, not to mention the hell of iterating over email.
I know someone who put a private GSM cellular base station in their attic just so that their collection of retro phones would work.

I suppose that's an option. I think the FCC lets you do it without a license below a certain wattage.
And if you can’t find a job because you’re older or the employer market is raking you over the coals, you’re screwed, while your housing is mostly locked in.
> a nondescript warm gas that doesn't smell like anything

The incredibly sad thing is, you're just so used to the horrible smell, you don't notice it anymore. Just like smokers who do not think they smell.
It's worth noting you do have to downgrade security permissions for Loopback, but not for BlackHole: https://rogueamoeba.com/support/knowledgebase/?showArticle=A...

I use Loopback and BlackHole both, although for different reasons/setups. I guess it's more an artifact of the surrounding macOS environment at the conception of each project. BlackHole's first commit was September 2019, while Loopback was released in 2016 (but also shares its capture engine with Audio Hijack, and its 1.0 release was 2002!)
Ford Circle
Australia is practically all variable rates after 3 years, so not much is really "locked in"
author here. Thanks for the gracious words. Yes, I'm foundationally attacking the entire way the discipline is practiced, I'm not _trying_ to do it politely, _and_ the critiques are possibly fairly leveled. :)
I like your ideas here, and for some reason your comments remind me of the vision of Google Wave, which was much hyped but suffered in my opinion from its lack of usage. It also had a weird interaction model which wasn’t quite public or private, sort of like the issues Google+ had with Circles. I’m reminded of the poor UI/UX and design/ergonomics of playing Nintendo games online with Friend Codes.
I've built a code search engine in the past so I know how painful debugging long indexing jobs can be and I would certainly be reluctant to support private repos until I know I can index thousands if not tens of thousands of open source repos with no issues.
> Let me know when bicycles can deliver food to cities or move heavy construction equipment.

All those cars out there are delivering food and/or moving heavy construction equipment? I'll be damned.
What else is new?

I'm more worried about people using VPN services that are IP4 only while having IP6 enabled in the system.

That can go terribly wrong...
I disagree. I wish I had more people that fit that filter. Email is broken and just a platform for spam. Even if it might be from someone that I purchased something from once or even regularly, if I did not select a check box to opt-in to receiving your email, it is spam.

It's 2024. Emailing large file attachments is about as old and busted as FTP. There are so many other services to "share" large files. Attachment to email was such a kludgy hack in the first place just shows it was only the best worst idea waiting for better solutions. We have them now.